BlockBefore

Booneville, Iowa

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50038. The Survey maps it on the Waukee quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Booneville within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Booneville between 2011 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources129 COTTAGE LANE,LAKE PONDEROSA, IA
24 March 2019Debris and open burning11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Booneville: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer
Booneville Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Commerce PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harold MooreSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wm SpatzSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booneville in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBooneville$500,000no account filed
March 2019FloodBooneville$100,000Emergency management and river gauges reported 8 to 10 foot rises on the Middle Raccoon and South Raccoon Rivers due to ice jams. Several county roads were impacts with road closures. Flooding was also reported along Highway 44 between Panora and Dallas Center from heavy rain and snowmelt. Portions of Walnut Creek were also just above bankfull from the rain and snowmelt.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville$20,000no account filed
March 2019FloodBooneville$10,000Law enforcement reported water over the road at the Raccoon River Bridge, but still passable at the time.
July 2011LightningBooneville$10,000Lightning struck a house at near Van Meter, at 33846 Woodridge Road.
June 2007HailBooneville$5,000no account filed
June 2007HailBooneville$5,000no account filed
June 2007HailBooneville$5,000no account filed
May 2008HailBooneville$3,000HAM radio operator reported nickel size hail.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Booneville$2,000This tornado moved into Dallas County from Madison County. Trees provided most of the damage observed with this tornado as it passed just west and north of the Dale Maffit Reservoir. The tornado dissipated just north of the reservoir and south of the Raccoon River.
June 2015HailBooneville-Public reported quarter sized hail in Booneville.

Every storm recorded in Dallas County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Van Meter3.8 miles11
Waukee6.0 miles11
Midwest Country Estates6.2 miles11
De Soto6.7 miles14
Ortonville7.4 miles11
Adel9.4 miles14
Garretville10.4 miles14
Quarry10.4 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BoonevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3248792The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454758. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.